Women's Cross Country

Skyline Releases Women's Cross Country Preseason Poll

Aug 24, 2012

- Rams Slated in 5th Place -

NEW YORK, N.Y. – St. Joseph’s-L.I.
has been selected to take home the 2012 Skyline Women’s Cross
Country crown in voting conducted by the league’s ten head
coaches. The Rams were picked to finish 5th overall this
season.

Farmingdale State will be led by junior Melissa Bonilla
(Massapequa Park, N.Y.), who finished in 9th place individually in
the 2011 Skyline Championship. She will be joined by three
returners in sophomore Druscilla Dickson (Copiague, N.Y.), senior
Marjorie Diemicke (North Massapequa, N.Y.) and junior Lauren
Neuwirth (Bellmore, N.Y.). Also joining the team this season are
track stars Kathleen Clermont (Uniondale, N.Y.), Katherine Hoskins
(Valley Stream, N.Y.), Victoria Mandat (West Babylon, N.Y.) and
Akimmie Parker (Brooklyn, N.Y.), along with newcomers Carina
Bonilla and Mariah-Lynette Cummings.

Vying for their ninth title in program annals, the Golden Eagles
earned eight first-place votes and 80 overall points, while 2011
runner-up Mount Saint Mary received a pair of first-place votes and
74 total points. SJC will be anchored by senior Christine
Cristobal, the 2011 Skyline individual champion, and junior Gillian
Goodwin, who finished second overall in 2011 and was the 2010
Skyline champion.

Maritime finished third in the voting with 60 points, followed
by Purchase (58), Farmingdale State (51), Yeshiva (39), NYU-Poly
(32), The Sage Colleges (22), Old Westbury (20) and Mount Saint
Vincent (14).

The 2012 Skyline Women’s Cross Country Championship will
be held on Sunday, Oct. 28, at Chadwick Lake Park in Newburgh,
N.Y.